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Charles Krauthammer: The joy of winning
It was our much-anticipated quarterly lunch with Tim Kurkjian, baseball analyst extraordinaire, wherein George Will and I bathe in a constant flow of obscure statistics, Kurkjian oddities and ribald anecdotes, like the one about the Red Sox beat writer who accidentally walked in on a players' pra…
May 27, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Same-sex marriage: Empathy or right?
There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys upon heterosexuals. That's essentially the case President Obama made when he first announced his change o…
May 20, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Netanyahu forms war coalition
WASHINGTON • In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eilat (Israel's southern outlet to the world's oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together w…
May 13, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Obama the divider in chief
"The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states ... "
May 06, 2012 | 12:05 am
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Charles Krauthammer: While Syria burns
Last year President Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of "Responsibility to Protect." Moammar Gaddafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand by and do nothing "would have been a betrayal of who we are," explained the president.
Apr 29, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Farewell to the new frontier
As the space shuttle Discovery flew three times around Washington, a final salute before landing at Dulles Airport for retirement in a museum, thousands on the ground gazed upward with marvel and pride. Yet what they were witnessing, for all its elegance, was a funeral march.
Apr 22, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Free-lunch egalitarianism
Here we go again.
Apr 15, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Obama v. Scotus
"I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."
Apr 08, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: The flexibility doctrine
"On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it's important for him (Putin) to give me space.... This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."
Apr 01, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: The reckoning
Obamacare dominated the 2010 midterms, driving its Democratic authors to a historic electoral shellacking. But since then, the issue has slipped quietly underground.
Mar 25, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Seaweed in your gas tank
Yes, of course, presidents have no direct control over gas prices. But the American people know something about this president and his disdain for oil. The "fuel of the past," he contemptuously calls it. To the American worker who doesn't commute by government motorcade and is getting fleeced eve…
Mar 18, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Obama vs. Israel
It's Lucy and the football, Iran-style. After ostensibly tough talk about preventing Iran from going nuclear, the Obama administration acquiesced to yet another round of talks with the mullahs.
Mar 11, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Poor Mitt Romney
It's been a wild ride, but the storyline of the Republican race remains remarkably simple and constant: It's Mitt Romney and the perishable pretenders.
Mar 04, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Brilliant sleight of hand on contraception issue
Give him points for cleverness. President Obama's birth control "accommodation" was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to provide medical insurance that guarantees free birth…
Feb 19, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: The gospel according to Obama
At the National Prayer Breakfast last week, seeking theological underpinning for his drive to raise taxes on the rich, President Obama invoked the highest possible authority. His policy, he testified "as a Christian," "coincides with Jesus' teaching that 'for unto whom much is given, much shall b…
Feb 12, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Syria is about more than freedom
Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured the collapse of the Soviet Union itself just two years later.
Feb 05, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: The State of the Union flop
Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama's game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address. The visionary of 2008 — purveyor of hope and change, healer of the earth, tamer of the rising seas — offered an hour of little things: tax-code tweaks to encourage this or that…
Jan 29, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: The GOP's suicide march
"Are you better off today than you were $4 trillion ago?"
Jan 22, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Ron Paul's remarkable achievement
There are two stories coming out of New Hampshire. The big story is Mitt Romney. The bigger one is Ron Paul.
Jan 15, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: A worthy opponent
After every other conservative alternative to Mitt Romney crashed and burned (libertarian Ron Paul is in a category of his own), from the rubble emerges Rick Santorum. But he isn't just the last man standing. He is the first challenger to be plausibly presidential: knowledgeable, articulate, expe…
Jan 08, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Are we alone in the universe?
Huge excitement. Two Earth-size planets found orbiting a sun-like star less than a thousand light-years away. This comes two weeks after the stunning announcement of another planet orbiting another star at precisely the right distance — within the so-called "habitable zone" that is not too hot an…
Jan 01, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Republicans turn payroll tax in to a debacle
Now that Congress appears finally to have reached a compromise on what must be one of the worst pieces of legislation in years — the temporary payroll tax holiday extension — let's survey the damage.
Dec 25, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Declaring victory on the war on terror
"Ask Osama bin Laden ... whether I engage in appeasement."
Dec 18, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Obama divides based on class
In the first month of his presidency, Barack Obama averred that if in three years he hadn't alleviated the nation's economic pain, he'd be a "one-term proposition."
Dec 11, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Charles Krauthammer: Mitt vs. Newt
It's Iowa minus one month, and barring yet another resurrection, or something of similar improbability, it's Mitt Romney versus Newt Gingrich. In a match race, here's the scorecard:
Dec 04, 2011 | 12:00 am
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